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That's what happened to Patrick McGinnis. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and his job had little value. He made a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There is, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break.''}}{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn=1523092734|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE''She brings a hug-kick->thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)

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The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical1786495902|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-aligncare professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': top; textthe next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-alignterm sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: left;2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.}}{{Frontpage|author=Lauren Martin|title=The Book of Moods|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= I was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''great'' being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. I had spent the best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I'm happy to, but that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, and it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.|isbn=1538733625}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008420386|title=Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=What do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? They've all failed and - more importantly - they've been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. You'll find the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=[[Spiritual Atheist by Nick Seneca Jankel]]Louisa Pateman|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.

[[image:2starThis was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe.jpg|link=Category It wasn't unkind:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] ''Spiritual Atheist'' is a new 'bible' it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the spiritual not the religious, according to girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the taglinehandsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. This is a taboo smashing book which solves the problem of modernity and explains how Few girls are lucky enough to be a brought up 'spiritual technologist' who can live and love freely in without'spiritual fullness' without relying on the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a belief in god. Touching on everything from and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that 'brain science' to AI, Jankel offers a belief is a choice''path to meaning', allowing us to move beyond consumerism towards an ethical life. [[Spiritual Atheist by Nick Seneca Jankel|Full Review]]}}<!-- Mackay -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1538731738| styletitle="widthSimple Abundance: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach[[image:Mackay_Trials.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524683094?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524683094]]Lifestyle| stylesummary="vertical-alignSomeone once said: top; textit's not self-align: left;"|===[[Trials and Tribulations of a Travelling Prostitute by Andrew Mackay]]=== [[image:3indulgence, it's therapy! 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I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is a worker who is employed by one company definitely the first two and only time will tell about the third – but his services are sold out to other countries, usually at clichés exist for a substantial profit to the employing company reason and a lot of inconvenience to the employeeI'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better. Mackay was an engineer who knew all that there was |isbn=1912836017}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1543987877|title=Learn to be know about turbines and generators, or if he didn't could soon be up Love: Guide to speed to the extent of being able Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''Learn to Love: Guide to teach other peopleHealing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. Occasionally his skills were used in The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the UKopposite of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, but frequently he was abroad. Just every now ''you will inevitably grieve''. Your love relationships begin the moment you're born and again he would be in those parts of end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the world which has the rest of us green with envy, but then hoping to give and receive love there were those areas which feature heavily in the news and are many people for whom love is not in a good wayquite so simple. [[Trials Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and Tribulations this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the form of resignation is a Travelling Prostitute by Andrew Mackay|Full Review]]necessity.}} <!-- Omeiza -->{{Frontpage|-author=Michael Harris| styletitle="widthSolitude: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=5[[image:Omeiza_Parenting.jpg|left|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524682853?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524682853]] Lifestyle| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; textThis is not the book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self-align: left;"|===[[Parenting through help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the Eyes mainstream, but it is not that at all. Instead of telling us how, it is more about the ''why''. 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And sometimes I ''Fucking Good Manners''ll treat it as if it is Netflix, to watch series with new episodes releasing every few days, exclusively on YouTubeaims to help us on the way. Having a new smart TV adds an extra, easy way }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999811402|title=Painting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It's very difficult to watch without having to plug in my laptop or squint at classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a small phone screen. So yes, I like YouTube and I use YouTube. But I didn't know year on an allotment it would be a whole lot about the site it until I read this lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results.[[Stream Punks by Robert Kyncl The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and Maany Peyvan|Full Review]] <!see'. 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It's an autobiography.}}{{FrontpageTea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century|isbn=1848993609|title=Good Mood Food: a trip Unlock the Power of Diet to Kings Cross or St Pancras Think and Feel Well|author=Charlotte Watts and Natalie Savona|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery|summary=I thought I was effectively getting a trip to cookbook: I liked the country in those days. Men had their coffee houses, but they were not places where women could or idea of a series of recipes which would be seenmake me feel happy. Tea was introduced For once this isn't a case of 'if it sounds too good to England in the 17th century but be true, it probably is' - it was not until 1784 that the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea became the drink 's a case of choice getting something which could change your life for the nationbetter - for good - rather than a quick fix. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Kyncl_Stream|title=Stream Punks|author=Robert Kyncl and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardens. [[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs WayMaany Peyvan|Full Review]] <!-- Nicholson -->|-rating=4.5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Entertainment[[image:Nicholson_Tambourine.jpg|left|linksummary=https://wwwI watch quite a lot of YouTube.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524681822?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524681822]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Mr Tambourine Man by Nicholson]]=== [[image:3I play music videos when I want to listen to a particular song I don't already have in my collection.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]I use it to find out how to do things, [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Back in 1965 we heard ''Mr Tambourine Man'' by with the Byrds on the radio very regularly. Nicholson was thirteen and saw instruction videos they seem to have for pretty much anything. 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ItBut I didn's this trip which Nicholson feels turned him from being t know a boy into a man and allowed him to see whole lot about the bigger picturesite it until I read this book.<br>}}<!-- Tuhus-Dubrow -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=Omeiza_Parenting| styletitle="widthParenting through the Eyes of a Child: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Memoirs of My Childhood|author=Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza[[image:Dubrow_Stereo.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1501322818/ref4|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Autobiography| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Personal Stereo by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] These tiny 'Object Lessons', a range of books which are more like a long-form essay, explore often seemingly mundane itemsTabitha Ochekpe Omeiza was brought up in Nigeria and came to Britain to study for her A levels when she was 18. Personal Stereo packs a lot of information into Her parents used their savings to give her this opportunity and called it an investment in her future. Now a small space. Split into three distinct sections: Novelty, Normqualified pharmacist, married and Nostalgia, 'Novelty' traces the origin with a child of the Sony Walkmanher own, from its conception by two Japanese business men to it becoming a recognised entity Tabitha looks back at her childhood and reflects on the streets of Americaway her mother and father raised her. 'Norm' follows on from the universal success And she gives their parenting top marks.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Mackay_Trials|title=Trials and Tribulations of the personal stereo, relating this to the technology which it set the groundwork for, such as the ubiquitous proliferation of MP3s, the iPod, a Travelling Prostitute|author=Andrew Mackay|rating=3.5|genre=Business and Smartphones, leading to the eventual downfall in the popularity of the Walkman. 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[[Personal Stereo A travelling prostitute is a worker who is employed by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow|Full Review]] <!-- Moore -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moore Bientotone company but his services are sold out to other countries, usually at a substantial profit to the employing company and a lot of inconvenience to the employee.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782438610?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782438610]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A BientotMackay was an engineer who knew all that there was to be know about turbines and generators, or if he didn't could soon be up to speed to the extent of being able to teach other people.Occasionally his skills were used in the UK, but frequently he was abroad.. by Roger Moore]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]], [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] The news Just every now and again he would be in those parts of the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great shock: he was one world which has the rest of us green with envy, but then there were those people you knew would go on for ever. 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He gives us his thoughts on various areas of our lives and then provides 131 exercises to help us recover our attention.}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]{{FrontpageI know that I|isbn=1786331608|title=Hard Pushed: A Midwife'm not alone in having been brought up to ''achieves Story|author=Leah Hazard|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Over the past few years, we'', to look down on those who ve had different a rash (''lesser'', it would have been saidsorry - no pun intended) aims, but there comes a point in life when you wonder about the point of it allof books by medical practitioners. Do you need to keep on ''achieving'', and if soDoctors have been at the forefront, but ''whyHard Pushed''? Many years ago is the first book I had 've seen by a light-bulb moment when I realised midwife. It's an unusual profession in that achieving more, having more money, more material possessions didnit't make me happy - s one of the few callings within the medical system where most of the patients are healthy and surely the point of it all was to be ''happy''? Superficially that sounds very simple: live a life doing only what you want to do one where one person comes into the system and pleasing yourself, but that doesn't bring happiness either(for the most part) more than one goes out. Chit Dubey believes that happiness is inside you and you just need It's an amazing thing to be able to delve a little deeper do - to find itescort new life into the world - and an enormous responsibility. [[21 Doors Leah Hazard came to Happiness: Life Through Travel Experiences it after a career in television and Meditation by Chit Dubey|Full Review]]''Hard Pushed'' is the story of her career as a midwife - and the title tells more than one story.}}<!-- Owusu -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0753552655| styletitle="widthTime and How to Spend It: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days|author=James Wallman[[image:Owusu_Psychosis.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524680559/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Lifestyle|summary===[[My Psychosis Story: A Story Most things you can replace, but one of Fear and Hope Through Adversity by Emmanuel Owusu]]=== [[image:4starthe things which you simply can't replace is time.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] ''My Psychosis Story'' recounts Emmanuel OwusuEven though we know this, we fail to use what we have wisely. We have more leisure time, but that's journey into and eventually out of psychosis. In late 2014not how it feels: a high value is put on how we spend our working hours, during but there's a visit home for Christmaslow value on leisure. Unfortunately, he found himself exhausted, anxious and unable we now know how to sleep. Symptoms persisted work and soon he was suffering from noise sensitivity and intense headaches. Various visits not how to A&E failed ''live'': we need to diagnose a physical cause. Things deteriorated further and possible diagnoses of anxiety and post traumatic concussion were suggested. And ''stilllearn'' things got worse. Eventually, Owusu's condition deteriorated so far that he was suffering from delusions how to spend our leisure time wisely and hallucinations. An ambulance was called and he was detained - sectioned - under James Wallman has taken on the Mental Health Act in 2015onerous task of teaching us how to do this. [[My Psychosis Story: A Story of Fear and Hope Through Adversity by Emmanuel Owusu|Full Review]]}}<!-- Hine -->{{Frontpage|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|B07ML4Q55J[[image:Hine_Mind.jpg|linktitle=httpHome Workout for Beginners://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473649285/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Mind of a Survivor by Megan Hine]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Megan Hine is probably the type of person that you'd want with you in a crisis situation. Cool, calm and capable; this survival expert is equally at home in desert, mountain, tundra and jungle environments. She's navigated her way around some of the most inhospitable regions on the planet and survived to tell the tale. But just what is it that makes some people more capable in a survival situation than others? Physical fitness? Bushcraft skills? Experience? Whilst all of these are important, Hine argues that ''attitude'' is one of the most important factors in survival. In this book, she examines how the right mindset can mean the difference between life and death when isolated in the wilderness. [[Mind of a Survivor by Megan Hine|Full Review]] <!-- Ikin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ikin_Kitchen.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/144566884X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Kitchen Garden (Britain's Heritage Series) by Caroline Ikin]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] I love visiting country houses, but you can keep the interiors and the flower gardens - what interests me is the kitchen garden: seeing one which has been restored to its former glory is a real treat, as was ''Britain's Heritage: The Country Garden'' when it landed on my desk. There was no longer any need to guess at the work that had been done: here was the history complete with glorious illustrations as well as some wonderful advertisements. ''Canary Guano. For Greenhouse and garden. Perfectly clean. May be used by a lady.'' is still making me giggle. [[The Kitchen Garden (Britain's Heritage Series) by Caroline Ikin|Full Review]] <!-- McNally -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mcnally_Cracking.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524662003/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Cracking the Obesity Crisis by Veronica M McNally]]=== [[image:1.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Any weight-related book, whether one that considers issues from a medical or sociological perspective, or one that provides advice on how to eat well or lose weight, whose opening pages feature such as controversial statements as: ''fat people are basically insecure, unhappy people trapped inside very unattractive bodies'', or ''Islamic people however are at an advantage as they do Ramadan and they are not overweight'', ''there is hope for overweight and obese people, but I don’t see a way back for the clinically aid [sic] morbidly obese'' or my personal favourite: ''as women’s hands are smooth and soft in many cases, females would be useful behind soldiers to be there as assistants to men quickly reloading magazines of bullets speedily'', any such book needs to provide an awful lot of valuable content in the pages that follow to have a chance of redeeming itself. [[Cracking the Obesity Crisis by Veronica M McNally|Full Review]] <!-- Darbyshire -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Darbyshire_Modern.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784755168/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[This Modern Love by Will Darbyshire]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Love is love, but at the same time love is changing, the way we find it, the way we express it, the way we walk away from things. You can change a Facebook status and tell the entire world the ins and outs of your relationship, you can meet people online, you can conduct long distance relationships in much more real time than in the past when you had to rely on the postman to deliver your heartfelt, handwritten note. This book, a compilation of letters and other contributions, explores what love is in the 21st century. It's certainly international – there were 15,000 submissions from over 100 countries – and it's also touching, funny, frustrating and all those other things. [[This Modern Love by Will Darbyshire|Full Review]] <!-- Williams -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Williams_Grandpa.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524667641/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Grandpa Diet and Diabetes by Laura Williams]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Nick's Mum is an accident and emergency nurse and life can get a bit hectic at times, particularly when she has to arrange for someone to look after Nick and his twin sister Emma. One day in the school holidays Grandpa had the pleasure of looking after the kids and Nick thought this was cool. Grandpa used to be a bit of a rocker, you see, and that's the sort of music he always has playing. He might have a stick but Nick's sure that he doesn't really need it - it's there just in case. He does have a problem though and Mum explains it by saying that Grandpa has to eat at the right time every day because he has diabetes. [[Grandpa Diet and Diabetes by Laura Williams|Full Review]] <!-- Way -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Way_Allotments.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445665700/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Allotments came about originally from the enclosure of land, primarily for sheep pasture. Fearing that the enclosures would leave peasants unable to feed themselves, Elizabeth I issued an act requiring all new cottages to have four acres of ground, something which has been honoured more by history than by Elizabeth's contemporaries. It was the first in a long line of legislation with that aim in mind - which largely failed to achieve their aims. [[Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way|Full Review]] <!-- Nicolau -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Nicolaou_Anxiety.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524667412/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Anxiety-Elimination System by Nicos Nicolaou]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Nick Nicolau suffered a major panic attack and was told by his doctor that he would need medication to control the attacks and that there wasn't much more that he could do - apart that was, from going home to sleep. The next morning he had another attack which he could neither stop nor control and before long was having panic attacks every day and developed generalised anxiety and phobias. After a great deal of work and research he discovered how to reverse and beat his anxiety - and now he helps others to do the same. No one is born with a chemical imbalance in the brain and genes do not determine behaviour. The proof of the efficacy of his system is that through the course of a particularly challenging life event - his divorce - he didn't slip back into inappropriate anxiety. [[The Anxiety-Elimination System by Nicos Nicolaou|Full Review]] <!-- Kalu -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kalu_Eat.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524676942/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Eat With Pleasure by Akon Margaret Kalu]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] When you think about a certified nutrition coach you probably imagine someone who is going to be very strict with you about what you should or shouldn't be eating. You visualise someone who will insist that you eat worthy (and probably tasteless) food and completely avoid those foods which you really love. Gone will be the bar of chocolate and possibly even the mug of coffee which gets you going in the morning. It was particularly refreshing and something of a relief to encounter Akon Margaret Kalu - certified nutrition coach and food blogger at [http://www.therealakon.co.uk www.therealakon.co.uk]. She's outspoken. She believes that the occasional treat does you no harm so long as you don't make it a regular habit. In fact you're better having a small, occasional, indulgent snack than resisting and finally giving into cravings and ''binging''. In other words, she lives in the real world with the rest of us imperfect beings. [[Eat With Pleasure by Akon Margaret Kalu|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING FROM BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreview6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss|author=Ruth Pearson|title=Say Yes to New Opportunities!James Atkinson

|summary=Ruth Pearson was deputy head of her school James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and he looks the part. He's been actively involved in the health and was studying fitness arena for a Masters degree when she suffered an emotional breakdown more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a result of the stresses member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: he's been on the jobother side. The breakdown There was so severe that she a time when he was afraid to return to the classroom, but rather than sitting back overweight and letting the circumstances overwhelm her she allowed what had happened to become not particularly strong. As a catalyst which would help her child, he was slow to change her lifedevelop. In This means that he ''Say Yes to New Opportunitiesunderstands'' she shares what she learned from it's like and he knows how his clients feel: it's much more helpful than the experience. To come back from this situation requires strength, honesty twenty-something who was born super-fit and a sense of purpose, all of which Pearson demonstrates quite clearly throughout this bookwith an attitude problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676616</amazonuk>

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